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Friday, August 31, 2012

What is twitter ? - For Dummies

What is Twitter | Twitter for dummies | How to twitter | Twitter Guide | Twitter Help - these topics will be covered in this blog post.

I know if you have launch on this website via my tweets then
you might be knowing about what is twitter,
why people have accounts on twitter, how twitter can help you in making your
social media presence, and what you can learn from twitter – This blog post is specifically created for dummies who want to start from the basics of twitter. here we go with
details about what is twitter?

Twitter is one of the leading social networking website
where group of people or users logs in to communicate their message within or
in 140 characters. It is about speaking and communicating what you are doing
and sharing your views and ideas to the group. Below is the first screen shot
which says “What are you doing ?” and there is a box where you can type 140
characters to convey your message.

You can put information about where you are currently, your
experiences and sharing your views and ideas or anything which you like.

Following and Followers:

Following is a group of people or users on twitter whom you
follow – say for example you like news by BBC you start following BBC twitter
account to get updates they do. You can find twitter followers either from the search bar or either via suggestion from twitter. You can
also have following of your followers

Followers is a group of people or users on twitter who
follow you for your updates, for example you are into internet marketing
business people who want to have update from you can be your followers.

Note : Account or Users who follow you (followers) can see
your tweets in their timeline

Here we go with the example of the tweets which i can see of my following :

The message you put in 140 characters is called tweets or tweeting a message, similarly now a days people say
google it instead of search or research it.

Home @Connect
#Discover

Let’s go more in detail for the above

1.Home – It is your home page which provides you
with the information such as the trending topics around the world or in your
country you can also check who are tweeting what, and can easily enter into a
communication with your views on your group tweets

2.@Connect – Connect is another page of twitter
will allows you to see messages from your followers – usually this page allows
you to communicate more personally with a particular user or your followers.

3.#Discover – Discover is a page which helps you
to search variety of things – you get stories on the top trending topics or
topics which interests you. It also allows you to see Activities by your
followers. You can find your friends from contacts of gmail, yahoo and others. You
can invite your friends to twitter and much more.

What’s more you can do on twitter

Search

Twitter has a very good search machine. You can also do
search via search.twitter.com. The main advantage of twitter search is that it
allows you to see the real time result – and it is better incase you need
recent information about a specific area or news. Apart from this the search
option on twitter also allows you to see the people who are related to the
search. Since twitter search allows you with realtime happenings you also get
the views of different people on that specific search.

Other areas where twitter helps you :

Since twitter is considered as one of the most important
social media networking tool which no one should missed it out twitter can help
you in many other areas where you can increase your social media presence. Some
of the areas are as follows